Knife pulled during fight over bar stool, say police

PORTSMOUTH — A Texas man is charged with three crimes alleging he assaulted a woman and pulled a knife on her companion during a fight over a bar stool.

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By Elizabeth Dinan

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By Elizabeth Dinan

Posted Aug. 2, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Updated Aug 2, 2012 at 5:26 PM

By Elizabeth Dinan

Posted Aug. 2, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Updated Aug 2, 2012 at 5:26 PM

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PORTSMOUTH — A Texas man is charged with three crimes alleging he assaulted a woman during a fight over a bar stool and later pulled a knife on her companion.

The alleged crimes were reported to police on Tuesday at 8:45 p.m. when officers were dispatched to the Portsmouth Gas Light Co., following a call about a woman being pulled off a bar stool, according to the public police log. When officers arrived, the suspect had left, but was later located at the Residence Inn, according to the police report.

Arrested for two counts of simple assault and a charge alleging criminal threatening was Blake Zimmerman, 42, of Houston, Texas.

Police Lt. Mark Newport said the alleged victim put her leg over a bar stool to save it while her companion used a men's room. Zimmerman then approached her, grabbed her leg and moved it off the stool, Newport said.

When the woman's companion returned, he confronted Zimmerman about the allegations, the two began to argue and the argument spilled out into the street, according to a Gas Light employee. The alleged male victim later returned and said Zimmerman had pulled a knife on him in the area of the Sheraton, according to the witness.

According to the Gas Light employee, police were able to find Zimmerman because he used a credit card to pay his bar tab and checked into the hotel using the same card.

Following his arrest, Zimmerman was freed after posting $1,600 cash bail, Newport said, adding that he believes Zimmerman is working in the area.